Anabelle Gambert-Jouan, Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art
At the end of the fifteenth century, artistic production flourished in Champagne, a region in northeast France. As local churches were built and embellished, large-scale religious sculpture was commissioned by noble families and the clergy. Combining exquisite local craftsmanship with stylistic influences from Northern and Southern Europe, sculptors in Champagne produced a dazzling array of sensitively carved sculptures ranging from figures of saints to scenes of the Passion. This lecture will contextualize the Kimbell’s Virgin and Child within the broad artistic output of Renaissance sculpture in Champagne and consider the sculpture’s use of alabaster instead of the local limestone.
These lectures, part of a continuing series, introduce the permanent collection and selected exhibitions on view at the Kimbell.
Lecture programs are supported in part by the Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation.
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